Schornsheim Kath Kirche

Schornsheim

Kath. Kirche St. Wigbert

From the village, a large baroque staircase dating from 1741 leads up to the small Catholic church of St.Wigbert. The uniqueness of the console figures as well as the figurative depiction of angels, apostles and the decorative painting make the church an important architectural monument of the Middle Rhine region. Particularly worth seeing are the Romanesque choir room from 1107, the new diamond-shaped roof from around 1850, Gothic wall paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries and the rich Neo-Gothic carved altar from 1887 with St.…

Stellwerk

Armsheim

The old signal box Armsheim North

The Old Signal Box was built in 1899 at the intersection of the railway lines Alzey – Bingen and Alzey – Mainz. It was decommissioned in 2007. Today, train control is handled by electronic signal box technology. The Old Signal Box Armsheim Nord (An) is the only one of its kind (mechanical Stahmer signal box technology) in Rheinhessen, where all technical facilities of the block and lever systems, as well as the tensioning system, are completely preserved. Thus, visitors can closely experience how the work of a pointsman was until…